Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
this fucking sucks. i am very disappointed that the protests lost steam and everything is just back to normal, swept under the rug. they showed their hand, acted like fucking dictators, and everyone is just like “welp thats it!” and gives the fuck up. it’s just sad. it feels like 90% of the people who said they were in this were all just being performative.
so many of us dedicated a lot of time to the protests, left our communities, migrated, all for everyone to just go crawling back. i won’t go back. i am staying on kbin. but man, it fucking sucks to see reddit face 0 consequences because Spez was right, “this will blow over”
I think this has done damage to Reddit, but it’ll be death by a thousand cuts rather than a big instantaneous failure.
To be honest, I really don’t care what happens to Reddit at this point. I’d rather have Kbin be a smaller, more dedicated community than have it “kill Reddit”.
I don’t necessarily know if I agree with your take on “smaller” but it definitely would help stem the tide of enshitification. We could be that glowing bastion on the hill that always pops up in zombie flicks.
Most social networks have this “growth at all costs” mentality that is usually the root cause of enshittification. When I say ‘smaller’, I mean it more in terms of fostering a healthy community of dedicated contributors rather than trying to make the fediverse grow as much as possible as fast as possible. This is why I mostly support the notion of preemptively defederating from Threads. While it would help the fediverse ‘grow’, that’s not necessarily what I want out of it. I don’t want us to win, I want us to be good.
Yeah, this. It often takes a lot to kill titans of any particular industry… and like it or not, the old tech bro sites like Reddit, Twitter etc. have grown too large to kill with a single arrow or a single trip of their own.
Instead their death often has to happen as a slow and gradual reforming of opinion. The most popular media sites have been thrown into chaos, and have lost most all of their goodwill (or what amount they may have had of it anyways) leaving them gasping for air. Facebook didn’t become “a place for old people” over night. It was a gradual thing.
Reddit will die off. Them locking the API behind a huge paywall will hurt them, not help them. VC’s have already lost a lot of faith in the tech industry including social media. They’ll have to find a way to make money… and I’m sorry to say, but if they couldn’t make money all this time, they probably won’t really ever be able to.
The age of high valuation with promises on return are gone.
As the article mentioned and there is a post about the people who fight the bots are shutting down on reddit so it’s about to get messy.
There’s always some people walking around dead malls, even if the mall died years ago. Reddit will be around for at least 5-10 more years but it’s overall influence will start to decline. It will be slowly at first but I’d bet three years from now reddit will just be seen as a forum site for scammers, bots, incels and alt-right lunatics (more than it is now).
You get used to it. Change is slow and a website like reddit won’t die overnight. Much better and productive to focus on building up a new community than tearing down the old.
The goal here shouldn’t have been to kill reddit. The goal is to start fostering the next community for the inevitable next meltdown. Start the fire, not set the toen ablaze. Which I feel is a when, not if.
I’m betting before the end of the year they start to make a big hit on sexual content on reddit. THAT is going to make the fire really rise.
and so the cycle continues… I’m much happier here though!
Let’s be real, Joe Public doesn’t care about the changes that caused the protests. They just want somewhere to go to see content, and reddits algorithms serve them content. If they have to scroll past some apps on a less-than-ideal app or the regular website, so be it. Most of the internet is shit anyways, reddits clients aren’t much better or worse in that regard.
It’s introduced a lot of people to the fediverse, which is awesome. And will probably have done a non-zero amount of damage to Reddit. But it’ll survive so long as Joe Public is willing to put up with it to see their cat pictures.